firmware

What's New with U-Boot?

What's New with U-Boot?

February 27, 2020

U-Boot is a widely used bootloader in embedded systems. Many users are unaware of the wide feature-set of U-Boot, particularly features added in the last few years. This talk aims to bring users (and …
Linux Kernel Memory Subsystem and Facilities: From A Novice Programmer's Perspective

Linux Kernel Memory Subsystem and Facilities: From A Novice Programmer's Perspective

February 12, 2020

Linux Kernel Memory Subsystem is the most complex topic in the Linux kernel and often time new programmers who are working on either low level things like firmware running aside linux kernel and linux …
Network Boot in a Zero-Trust Environment

Network Boot in a Zero-Trust Environment

February 11, 2020

Network boot is commonly used for everything from booting thin clients to using IT automation for bare-metal provisioning. Unfortunately, most network boot infrastructure is based on outdated standard …
UEFI Secure Boot in U-Boot

UEFI Secure Boot in U-Boot

February 8, 2020

The PC world and embedded systems have mostly followed their own paths when it comes to firmware design. PCs grew up around BIOS followed by EFI which eventually became the UEFI specification, and fin …
Wear Estimation for Devices with eMMC Flash Memory

Wear Estimation for Devices with eMMC Flash Memory

February 8, 2020

One of the most common persistent memory technology in today's embedded Linux devices is eMMC flash memory.The raw NAND flash used inside the eMMC chips has a limited number of write cycles. To get a …
Building a Secure IoT Device

Building a Secure IoT Device

February 6, 2020

Building a secure connected device is a complex challenge.- Provisioning of a device requires handling of secrets. While creating a physically secure facility is an accepted way of securely provisio …
Using TPMs to Cryptographically Verify Devices at Scale

Using TPMs to Cryptographically Verify Devices at Scale

February 5, 2020

Once a new device leaves IT and enters user hands, maintaining confidence in the security of the device is a challenge. When access to network resources relies on credentials provided by the device, r …
Bluetooth Mesh and Zephyr

Bluetooth Mesh and Zephyr

February 4, 2020

Bluetooth mesh was released in 2017 and allows secure networks of thousands of Bluetooth devices to be created. It uses Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) for radio communications and inherits its optimised, l …
2019 State of U-Boot Development Report

2019 State of U-Boot Development Report

February 1, 2020

The U-Boot bootloader has been evolved for nearly 2 decades and is one of the primary and well-known opensource bootloader choice for embedded industry.The 2019 State of U-Boot development report desc …
RISC-V Boot Process: One Step at a Time - Atish Kumar Patra, Western Digital

RISC-V Boot Process: One Step at a Time - Atish Kumar Patra, Western Digital

January 21, 2020

A well-supported and standard boot flow is very important for the RISC-V software ecosystem before RISC-V can be a truly competitive alternative to existing mainstream ISAs. However, RISC-V also needs …
The Journey of Leading Open Source Engineering Team in China

The Journey of Leading Open Source Engineering Team in China

January 13, 2020

7 years ago, Jocelyn started her journey in open source development world as a software engineering team manager.At beginning, Jocelyn simply assumed that the only difference with open source developm …
Firmware Security Methodologies from A to Z

Firmware Security Methodologies from A to Z

January 10, 2020

System Security is one of the critical elements of modern era software & hardwares. There are many security solutions implemented in operating systems both at kernel level and user space level. But th …
Unfit Story of Fitness Trackers: Hacking BLE Fitness Trackers

Unfit Story of Fitness Trackers: Hacking BLE Fitness Trackers

September 26, 2019

Bluetooth Low Energy is being used extensively in almost all the modern "Smart" devices from smart phones, smart devices, smart watches as well as advanced medical equipment. This talk will introduce …